Author: K. Treniov
Translation: Traian Niţescu and Ludmila Bucşan

Artistic director: Radu Penciulescu
Sets: Gheorghe Oriold
Costumes: Adriana Leonescu
Premiere date: December 28, 1955

1905. In a provincial town in the vastness of Russia, the historical upheavals that will shape the life of the country for almost a century begin to be foreshadowed. Treniov's high school students, "helmsmen of the future revolution" are imbued with the significance of the era. They are ready to set off to fight for the overthrow of the old orders and the establishment of a new regime, assuming all the risks: they will be humiliated, expelled, perhaps imprisoned or deported to Siberia. Going through a complex process of clarification, Olga becomes, together with Pavel and George, the soul of the illegal circle of students, who organize and lead their struggle. The performance highlights the path that the group of students will take from the "conspiracy game" in the first scene to declaring a strike and joining the workers' struggle. Beyond the atmosphere strongly impregnated with communist ideology, the play preserves its revolutionary romantic spirit intact.

Distribution:

Leagushev: Ion Vilcu
Adamov: Constantin Simionescu
Sardanapalenko: Septimiu Pop
Braghin: Valentin Avrigeanu
Father Myron:  Andrei Vajda
Khreashchev:   Eugen Tugulea
Prozorovskaya: Maria Vasilescu
Karaseva:  Lulu Popescu
Jugov: Misu Vladimir
Victor: George Tomescu
Chernitsikin: Aurel Decu
Olga: Cristina Tacoi
Irina: Alla Tautu
Voronina: Stefania Popescu
Paul: Eugen Nagy
It was going: Eliza Plopeanu
George: George V. George
Butenko: Grig Schiţcu
Pijov: Jean Sandulescu
Artichoke: Alexandru Fierăscu, Valentin Avrigeanu
A police commissioner: Grig Teodorescu
A student from the lower grades: Nicholas Barosan (debut as a student)
A guard: Anton Popa

Technical director: Dalma Simionescu
Prompter: Cornelia Brezeanu